Polyamide 3D printing: Nylon Plastic Powder Material for SLS

Polyamide is a plastic material used
to print 3D objects. Printed from polyamide powder, this material
is also known as nylon.

Sculpteo 3D Printed Polyamide Samples

Polyamide Plastic Properties

Polyamide material's structure comes from a polymer containing amide
functions. You will find technical information about this material
by downloading its Technical
Specification Sheets.

Polyamide Plastic and 3D Printing

Polyamide is used in 3D printing in a variety of formats. Polyamide
in powder form is used in SLS (Selective Laser Sintering). Printers made by 3D Systems and EOS
GmbH use this method to melt polyamide plastic with laser energy.

In wire form in FDM (or fused deposition modelling),the polyamide material is heated
until in a liquid state, then extrudes from a nozzle that applies
it layer by layer in order to create the desired object. Stratasys
and 3D Systems, the two industry leaders, distribute 3D printers
for polyamide.

Sculpteo Polyamide Plastic

At Sculpteo, we use the most common variety of polyamide, which is
PA 2200 or PA12, but there are many other variants of polyamide
plastic such as polyamide 11(or nylon 11, PA 11 and French nylon),
polyamide 6, polyamide 4.6, polyamide 6.6, polyamide 6.9, polyamide
6.10, polyamide 6.12, polyamide 10.10, and polyamide 10.